Tag Archives: Robert Fisk

Honour Killings and Slut Walks

First, here’s a piece from Robert Fisk about honour killings, published last year in The Independent (warning: this one’s not for the faint-hearted). Incidentally, Fisk describes honour killings as ‘one of the last great taboos’. I disagree with this, in … Continue reading

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Robert Fisk and Jeremy Bowen – talking about war and the role of the media

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Bahrain is going to sue Robert Fisk and the Independent

The government of Bahrain made the announcement yesterday, and said The Independent had published “defamatory information to tarnish its image” and “The Independent has deliberately published a series of unrealistic and provocative articles targeting Bahrain and the Kingdom of Saudi … Continue reading

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The Hama massacre

The reason that there’s so much media attention at the moment on the uprising in Syria is mostly because of the Hama massacre, which occured in 1982, when the Syrian president Hafez al-Assad (father of the present Syrian president) ordered … Continue reading

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